DATA SOURCES

Modern Benthic Datasets

The modern datasets used were downloaded from the OBIS database (http://iobis.org).  Suggested citations and webpages for each dataset are listed below.

Josefson, A.; Rytter, D.; Department of Bioscience - AU, Denmark; (2015): Danish benthic marine monitoring data from ODAM.
http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/3920

National Institute of Aquatic Resources (Aqua) - DTU, Denmark; International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Denmark (2016): Historic data (1908-1963) of benthic macrofauna from the Limfjord, Denmark
http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/4312

Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management; Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI); (2015): SHARK - Marine soft bottom macrozoobenthos monitoring in Sweden since 1971
http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/3826

Dounas C., 1988: Benthos Cretan Continental Shelf. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece
http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/3185

Kendall M., 1996: Arctic soft-sediment macrobenthos. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/60

Herrmann, M., J. Laudien, 2004: Soft bottom community structure and diversity in Arctic Kongsfjorden. Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany https://doi.org/10.14284/263
http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/587

Bachelet, G., 2004: Benthos Gironde Estuary. Université Bordeaux 1, Station Marine d'Arcachon, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Biologique, France
http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/589

Robinson, K.A., Darbyshire, T., Van Landeghem, K., Lindenbaum, C., McBreen, F., Creaven, S., Ramsay, K., Mackie, A.S.Y., Mitchell, N.C., Wheeler, A., Wilson, J.G. & O'Beirn, F. 2009. Habitat mapping for conservation and management of the southern Irish Sea (HABMAP). I: Seabed surveys. Studies in Marine Biodiversity and Systematics from the National Museum of Wales. BIÔMOR Reports 5(1): 234 pp.
http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/2638

Rumohr, H., 1995: Kiel Bay intercalibration data set. Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Marine Ecology Division, Germany https://doi.org/10.14284/298
http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/70

EPA EMAP database. Request for Acknowledgment: EMAP requests that all individuals who download EMAP data acknowledge the source of these data in any reports, papers, or presentations. If you use these data, please include a statement similar to "Some or all of the data described in this article were produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through its Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), http://www.epa.gov/emap/.”
http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/25
https://archive.epa.gov/emap/archive-emap/web/html/

In order to constrain substrate, all European datasets were intersected with the EMODnet broad-scale seabed habitat map:

https://www.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/terms-of-use/#hfd2e562635da4460976df0a8220c415c


Fossil Datasets

Phanerozoic datasets:

Phanerozoic fossil datasets were downloaded from the Paleobiology Database (PBDB: https://paleobiodb.org) on November 21, 2018, using the following API query:  

https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/occs/list.csv?datainfo&rowcount&taxon_reso=genus&pres=regular&interval=Cambrian,Holocene&time_rule=contain&lithology=siliciclastic,mixed,carbonate&envtype=marine,carbonate,silicic,^lacust,^fluvial,^karst,^terrother,^reef&abundance=count:1&show=full,classext,acconly,img,etbasis,strat,lith,env,resgroup,ref,ent,entname,crmod. e=count1&show=full,classext,acconly,img,etbasis,strat,lith,env,resgroup,ref,ent,entname,crmod.  

The top 25 authorizers contributing to this dataset, in descending order of number of occurrences contributed, are: M. Clapham, W. Kiessling, A. Miller, A. Hendy, M. Aberhan, M. Uhen, J. Alroy,  M. Patzkowsky, B. Kroger, F. Fursich, S. Holland,  P. Wagner, D. Bottjer, M. Carrano, M. Kosnik, J. Palfy, M. Hopkins, L. Villier, L. Ivany, S. Gouwy, S. Finnegan, C. Cervato, R. Benson, A. McGowan, K. Layou.

Ediacaran datasets:

Ediacaran datasets from Nilpena were compiled from the following publications:

Gehling, J. G., and M. L. Droser. 2013: How well do fossil assemblages of the Ediacara Biota tell time? Geology 41:447–450.

Droser, M. L., J. G. Gehling, L. G. Tarhan, S. D. Evans, C. M. S. Hall, I. V. Hughes, E. B. Hughes, M. E. Dzaugis, M. P. Dzaugis, P. W. Dzaugis, and D. Rice. 2017: Piecing together the puzzle of the Ediacara Biota: Excavation and reconstruction at the Ediacara National Heritage site Nilpena (South Australia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

Evans, S. D., P. W. Dzaugis, M. L. Droser, and J. G. Gehling. 2018: You can get anything you want from Alice’s Restaurant Bed: exceptional preservation and an unusual fossil assemblage from a newly excavated bed (Ediacara Member, Nilpena, South Australia). Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 0:1–11.

The Ediacaran dataset from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland was described in:

Clapham, M. E., G. M. Narbonne, and J. G. Gehling. 2003: Paleoecology of the oldest known animal communities: Ediacaran assemblages at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland. Paleobiology 29:527–544.

and was downloaded from FigShare:

https://figshare.com/articles/Mistaken_Point_Ediacaran_count_data/1111665





